Space Forum / Space Station / January 2007

A French astronaut soon on the ISS
http://www.lefigaro.fr/sciences/20070125.FIG000000025_un_astronaute_francais_bie
ntot_sur_l_iss.html
MARC MENNESSIER.
Published on January 25, 2007

I read at the following link that the Pirs Docking Compartment has a
lifetime as part of the station of 5 years. It was launched in 2001. Are
there plans to replace it soon?
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/structure/elements/pirs.html

...as originally posted to, and subsequently removed from, the
Wikipedia article on Weightlessness:
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Criticism of the terms "Zero Gravity" and "Microgravity"

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Is there an online source of ISS coordinates (2d - "point where the ISS
is currently overhead") or the TLE (Two Letter Epheremides)?
Although the coordinates would be easier for me to use, I suspect
sufficiently-accurate polling from only a handful of installations could